Obit of Trent, Eugene Tyson - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Rob A Walker 03 Jun 2021 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Red Hill Cemetery--Hammon OK The Elk City Daily News, Tuesday, October 25, 1966 pg 2 Tractor Kills Citian's Brother Funeral services for Eugene Tyson Trent, who was killed on Monday in a tractor accident in Altus, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Merritt Funeral chapel in Altus. Graveside rites will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Red Hill cemetery near Hammon with Rev. Albert E. Trent officiating. Mr. Trent was the brother of Mrs. Ethel Price, of Elk City. Local funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Martin Funeral home. =========== The Altus Times-Democrat, Tuesday, October 25, 1956 pg 1 County Man Dies As Tractor Flips Eugene T. Trent, 41, a farm employee on the Brooks LaGree farm Northeast of Altus for the past several years, was killed Monday afternoon when a tractor he was driving trumbled into an irrigation ditch, pinning him in the bottom of the ditch. He was dead on arrival at Memorial hospital. Time and exact cause of death was not immediately determined, but authorities said the accident may have occurred anytime from 4:30 p.m. until about 6 p.m. He was discovered by his brother, Henry Trent, who started looking for him after 6 p.m. when he failed to return home. Trent lived about 400 yards from where the accident occurred on the LaGree farm, 3 miles north and 1 1/2 miles east of Altus. Authorities said he apparently was driving the tractor along a dirt road which borders the irrigation when it turned over into the canal. Doctors today suspect that Trent's neck may have been broken in the fall. Without an autopsy, however, they were unable to determine if he died of the injury or by drowning, since he was trapped in some mud and water. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. in Merritt Funeral home chapel, with Rev. C. L. Abercrombie officiating. Interment will be at 2:30 p.m. in the Red Hill cemetery near Hammon. Trent was born Jan. 19, 1925, in Tennessee. He moved from Hammon to Jackson county in 1951, and had worked most of that time as a farm labourer on the LaGree farm. Survivors include his wife, Mammie, of the home; a brother, Henry of Altus; two sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Parker of Hammon and Mrs. Ethel Price of Elk City. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html